[PLUG-TALK] Charlie Stross at Powells Portland Thursday October 11

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> Well, both talks are in the new Powells event calendar, hence the timing. 
> Both (mostly fantasy, not SF) authors have a strong connection to Linux. 
> In fact, Charlie will be most of his time in the northwest in discussions
> with Yahoo and Google.  Read the suggested excerpt from The Atrocity
> Archives - the hacking of the Linux box occurs on page 2.

> As both authors indirectly point out, a computer program is just a
> magic spell that frequently works, but often calls forth dark forces
> unintentionally.  And most of the dotcom business plans of a decade
> ago were poorly written fantasy ...

Keith,

   Those are reasonable explanations. Thanks for clarifying.

   I've not read SciFi in decades, and I deal too much with fantasy in both
Regulatoryland and the political arena to want to read it for relaxation.

Appreciate the response,

Rich

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